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Subject: Re: Total of positions of the Checker game - smaller in compared to chess ??

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:58:09 01/24/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 08:46:46, martin fierz wrote:

>On January 24, 2001 at 02:53:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 24, 2001 at 02:14:20, Tania Devora wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Here are the total number of checker positions sorted according to the number of
>>>pieces on the board.
>
>[snip]
>
>>I think that these numbers are not correct and they are only upper bounds.
>>
>>It is clear that there are many illegal positions that cannot be reached from
>>the initial position and it seems that you counted them(otherwise the C vs V
>>number seems too big).
>
>these numbers are what jonathan schaeffer quotes in his book 'one jump ahead'.
>i think his calculations can be trusted :-)

I think that my logic can be trusted and there are not many legal
positions(positions that can be achieved in a game from the initial position)
when both sides have 12 pieces on the board.

Uri



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